Platinum Blonde

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DanTheMan 2 @DanTheMan2150AD Aug 23 Stock archetypes and class divide are at the centre of Platinum Blonde; there's very little to laugh at throughout the film, but it's hardly much of a drama either. The dialogue, intended to be witty, is rather strained, at times almost sophomoric. Granted, there were a few moments where I giggled due to certain expressions having unfortunate connotations nowadays. Depression-era seduction with very little in the way of complexity. The direction, more akin to a stage play, feels rather unadventurous and locked down, although there were a few shots I could point to as being somewhat interesting. Despite some entertaining performances, the film is hindered by a meandering screenplay that gives the actors little to work with, one that feels like a first draft, ultimately rendering Platinum Blonde as positively unengaging. If I wanted to see rich people being facetious, I'd watch Monty Python's Upper Class Twit of the Year. See more Richard C @RT94903474 01/05/2024 I watched this movie for the first time yesterday evening , & say that I would sit through it again to see the nuances Frank Capra probably probably put in it. It's early Capra & early Harlow & you can see the potential in both. Harlow glowed as the blond but Loretta Young also in an early role was excellent. The Pre-Code designation left me confused; was it because lead actor Robert Williams kissed Loretta Young at the end before his divorce from Harlow in the film? Yawn to the Hays Code ! Williams was the stenght in this film but I had never ehard of him, so I researched what could have happened. He died 3 days after the film premiered . Peritonitis, and 5 years later the actor who played the Editor of the paper also died of the same thing , and then a year later Harlow of kidney failure. All before antibiotics, so we are blessed with modern meds. Watch the film, you will most likely like it. Cinematography is among the best I have seen. See more Thomas M @TMProofreader 02/02/2019 The best comedy movie ever made! See more 11/13/2016 Frank Capra was a master. Loretta Young was adorable in this. See more ashley h @ashleyhobgood87 04/01/2016 Platinum Blonde is an amazing film. It is about a young woman from a very rich family who marries a reporter. Jean Harlow and Robert Williams give fantastic performances. The screenplay is well written. Frank Capra did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the romance and humor. See more 03/31/2016 Rom-com, 1931 style. Robert Williams plays a newspaper reporter who falls for a rich socialite (Jean Harlow) and the two get married, against her mother's objections. The relationship is ill-matched, him resenting being treated as a 'bird in a gilded cage', as he and others put it, and she disliking his crude ways and partying friends. Meanwhile, the gal pal played by Loretta Young carries a torch for him all along. You know how it's going to end, but it's charming nevertheless, has a script full of funny touches, and is well cast all around. Williams is smooth and wonderful, and reminds one of Spencer Tracey. Characteristic to the time, he settles a few disagreements with his fists, but it's as good-natured a way as Capra can make it. He also a couple of very nice romantic scenes with Harlow - the first, talking and then kissing behind the window of a beautiful garden waterfall, and the second, playfully making up and singing a song debating whether he should wear garters or not. It's absolutely tragic that Williams would die at the age of 37 three days after the film's premier, and that Harlow would die six years later at the age of 26. See more Read all reviews

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